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Not even slightly edgier. There was stuff on the 90s that's so weird it wouldn't even get a Netflix / Disney / ATT meeting these days. Ren & Stimpy, Powerpuff
by ethbr0 5y ago
Not even slightly edgier. There was stuff on the 90s that's so weird it wouldn't even get a Netflix / Disney / ATT meeting these days.
Ren & Stimpy, Powerpuff Girls, Pinky & the Brain, Magic School Bus, Johnny Bravo, I Am Weasel, Freakazoid!, Eek! the Cat, Earthworm Jim, Dexter's Lab, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Captain Planet, Rocko's Modern Life, Talespin, Tiny Toon Adventures, VeggieTales, Captain Planet, Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, Bonkers, Animaniacs.
- PhasmaFelis 5y agoHang on, are you saying TaleSpin, Magic School Bus, and VeggieTales were edgy and transgressive? There's a lot of good shows on that list, yes, and they broke plenty of ground in terms of kids' animation quality, but only a few of them were pushing the envelope of "what you can get away with on TV."
- ethbr0 5y agoWhat you can get away with on TV also implies what TV will broadcast. A lot of those shows clearly didn't fit in the green-light mold.
- jdofaz 5y agoDisney via Hulu has an Animaniacs revival that includes Pinky & the Brain
- ethbr0 5y agoI've seen it. It's a decent effort, but doesn't live up to the original. But then again, I'm not sure our current times even allow that kind of humor anymore.
- dllthomas 5y agoI've been rewatching the original. The original doesn't live up to the original.
- canadianfella 5y ago> But then again, I'm not sure our current times even allow that kind of humor anymore. What do you mean? Seriously.
- ragingrobot 5y agoIn the new opening theme they even make a point of showing they've changed, embracing subjects like gender and ethnicity that would have been the butt of jokes at some point in the old show. They recognize these times would not allow certain forms of "humor."
- boomboomsubban 5y agoI don't watch a ton of current kids shows, but the little I've seen still look pretty weird. It's a different weird but that's more just due to general trends. Plus, like half of those have had/will have reboots.
- nonameiguess 5y agoAmusing that Captain Planet is on there twice. For what it's worth, Rick and Morty just did a gender-swapped Captain Planet tribute episode a few weeks ago, and they run on AT&T-owned HBO Max.
- ethbr0 5y agoRick & Morty and Cartoon Network feel the closest, but everything still seems to trend towards slapstick. The 90s "weird" (grunge? punk?) doesn't seem to be there anymore. I mean, Christ, look at a still from Courage: http://mobiletvshows.net/imdb_epimages/242235.jpg http://mobiletvshows.net/imdb_epimages/242235.jpg
- tclancy 5y agoHalf of that stuff was in syndication after school and the rest was on Nick. Ren & Stimpy was the only one that came close to being “dangerous”. Hell, Veggietales is about The Bible. Simply listing stuff doesn’t make it so.
- ethbr0 5y agoWe have different definitions of edgy. I consider a overtly Christian show about vegetables pretty edgy. In the sense of (a) who would have created that & (b) who would have broadcast that (even among Christian tv channels)?
- PhasmaFelis 5y ago> I consider a overtly Christian show about vegetables pretty edgy. When you say "edgy", do you mean "novel/creative"? That would explain the confusion. Definitions 3, 7, and/or 8 at Wiktionary are what we're using: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/edgy https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/edgy You seem to be using definition 2, which is not the common meaning today. The only shows on that list that are "edgy" by the everyday definition are Ren and Stimpy, I Am Weasel (a spinoff of Cow and Chicken, which was a straight ripoff of Ren and Stimpy's visual and writing style), and sometimes Animaniacs. The rest may have slipped an off-color joke under the radar from time to time, but it wasn't their main thing.
- canadianfella 5y agoWhat are you talking about?